Savages: The Story of Human Zoos

Savages: The Story of Human Zoos

#The barbarian is, first and foremost, the man who believes in barbarism


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1h 32m 2018 HD

For more than a century the great colonial powers put human beings, taken by force from their native lands, on show as entertainment, just like animals in zoos; a shameful, outrageous and savage treatment of people who were considered subhuman.


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